The Full Circle Blog » sce2010 http://blog.thefullcircle.com The news, views and skews of The Full Circle Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Microsoft management software on-route, clear-out the old beta’s http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2010/01/new-microsoft-management-software-on-route-clear-out-the-old-betas/ http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2010/01/new-microsoft-management-software-on-route-clear-out-the-old-betas/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:05:57 +0000 ReubenC http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2010/01/23/new-microsoft-management-software-on-route-clear-out-the-old-betas/ With the release of SCE2010 Release Candidate this last week, and coupled with a rebuild of our primary infrastructure & management server it’s been time to do a bit of overdue housekeeping in light of the new software available or about to be released..

This morning (whilst finishing our new Windows 7 with Office 2010 Beta build for the ThinkPad X series – yes I’m a sad git at 07:00!) I’ve deleted space consuming binaries and install media for older beta products that have been superceeded or are about to be.

For the cull are SCE2010 Beta, DPM 2010 Beta v3 (RC is due in early feb), and a really old SCVMM 2008 R2 RC…. saved a mere 26GB of disk space there! (yes this is sarcasm!)

Now I’m not intending to write possibly the most pointless and dull blog post in the history of the blaahhhg, but more as a reference to myself of our involvement in these stages of product testing and development.

If for some reason you’re not aware of how you get hold of Microsoft early release beta’s and release candidates then take a trip to http://connect.microsoft.com.  Be warned this may start a long and time consuming passtime of exploring new software, but the rewards are there for your efforts.

Anyway, its time to start reusing some of that reclaimed disk space and start extracting the 4.10GB of SCE2010 RC I downloaded the other day… who’s going to bet its even bigger than the beta? ;-)

]]> http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2010/01/new-microsoft-management-software-on-route-clear-out-the-old-betas/feed/ 0 SCE 2010 installation… cleaning up afterwards (deleting wasted space, moving dBs) http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2009/11/sce2010-db-cleanup/ http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2009/11/sce2010-db-cleanup/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:47:03 +0000 ReubenC http://reubenjcook.wordpress.com/?p=302 We installed the current beta of System Center Essentials 2010 on our production infrastructure server, an HP DL380-G4 running Windows Server 2008 R2 to find that we consumed a huge amount of disk space – so much so the server ran out of space on its C:System partition… oh and SCE didn’t report on this in its daily summary!

So a clean-up is required…

1st thing to delete was several hundred megabytes of files taken up with various language versions of MS Virtual Server 2005 binaries in:
C:Program FilesSystem Center EssentialsSCVMM 2008vs  i386 & amd64
the ’1033′ folders contain the english versions, the rest deleted

Next on the list is the SQL database files used by SCE, by default (no installation choices given, hopefully better by RTM!), these are installed into:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10.ESSENTIALSMSSQL
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSRS10.ESSENTIALS
each currently taking after about a week of SCE2010 running, some 748 & 580MB respectively!

in our case we also found another 417MB in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapUpdate CacheKB968369ServicePack – will come back on this one, but have moved in the meantime…

and another 641MB in C:Program FilesSystem Center EssentialsHealth Service StateHealth Service Store (one in particular, the HealthServiceStore.edb at 598MB!)

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